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Teddy Lussi-Modeste (born 25 March 1978) is a French Romani film director, screenwriter and literature teacher. He wrote and directed the films Jimmy Rivière (2011), The Price of Success (2017), and The Good Teacher (2024).
Teddy Lussi-Modeste, né le 25 mars 1978 [1], [2] à La Tronche, près de Grenoble, est un réalisateur, scénariste, professeur de lettres et acteur français. Il est issu de la communauté des gens du voyage.
Teddy Lussi-Modeste is known for The Price of Success (2017), Jimmy Rivière (2011) and The Good Teacher (2024).
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The screenplay was co-written by Teddy Lussi-Modeste and Audrey Diwan, inspired by Lussi-Modeste's own experience when he was a French teacher at a school in Aubervilliers, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, and was wrongfully accused of harassing a 13-year-old female student in 2020. "
Mar 26, 2024 · The one chosen by Teddy Lussi-Modeste is all the more relevant for touching on another very contemporary phenomenon: the increased (and rightly so) attention paid to complaints by young people in cases of inappropriate behaviour from a teacher.
Mar 27, 2024 · Réalisateur et prof de français, Teddy Lussi-Modeste se dit très reconnaissant envers la France qui lui a donné la possibilité, à lui « gitan, d'être professeur et réalisateur ». Issu de la communauté, des gens du voyage, il aurait dû travailler sur les marchés avec son père. Mais il s’en est sorti grâce à l'école. Les livres l’ont sauvé.
May 9, 2023 · Paris-based company Indie Sales has acquired Teddy Lussi-Modeste’s topical third feature, “The Good Teacher,” co-written by “Happening” filmmaker Audrey Diwan.
